29 July 2016 — Global Research
The Neo-Con “West” And Global Destruction. A “New World Order” of Globalized Despair
By Mark Taliano, July 29 2016
The neo-con “West” and its allies want to destroy the Middle East so that they can control the Middle East. Under the auspices of their imperial “New Middle East” project, the criminals (U.S–led NATO, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and Israel, are targeting everything that they falsely profess to cherish.
28 Jiuy 2016 — Global Research
Cults of Security and Terror: Fear Ahead of the Rio Olympic Games
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 28 2016
The Olympics remains a black hole of needless expenditure, sucking services into it with impending and merciless doom. Unused stadia, tracks left to moulder, services supposedly linked to urban renewal turned into dilapidated wonders. That is the Olympic legacy in its lingering aftermath.
28 July 2016 — Colin Todhunter
Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the message from a damning new report from War On Want ‘The New Colonialism: Britain’sscramble for Africa’s energy and mineral resources’ that highlights the role of the British government in aiding and abetting the process.
28 July 2016 — Coldtype
Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net
SPECIAL MID-SUMMER ISSUE: We’ve got a great collection of features this month. Top of the list is Colin Todhunter’s revealing tale of corporate capers as British companies grab Africa’s energy and mineral resources. Then we’ve got Conn Hallinan’s dire warning of impending nuclear misfortune if the US and NATO don’t take a more temperate approach to Russia.
28 July 2016 — Housmans Books
NEWS
1. Cally Road Pop Up Zine Shop
IN-STORE EVENTS
2. ‘The City: London and the Global Power of Finance’ with Tony Norfield
3. ‘An Unreliable Guide to London’ with readers Tim Burrows, Juliet Jacques, Stephen Thompson + editors Gary Budden, Kit Caless
4. ‘Social-Democracy and Anarchism: In the International Workers’ Association, 1864-1877’ with René Berthier
5. ‘Betraying a Generation: How Education is Failing Young People’ with Patrick Ainley
6. ‘The 21st Century Revolution: A Call to Greatness’ with Bruce Nixon
7. ‘The Truth About Trident: Disarming The Nuclear Argument’ with Timmon Wallis
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28 July 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jul/e-mail-gen-july.pdf
NEWS
1. Council: Exit-Entry, Discrimination, Equal treatment, Maritime Security and Banned exports
2. Greece: GISTI report on Greek hotspots in Lesbos and Chios after the EU/Turkey deal
3. UK: Growing calls to extend undercover policing inquiry remit beyond England and Wales
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28 July 2016 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordBarack Obama is “responsible for the biggest escalation in the history of the one-sided war against Black America. He increased militarization of local police 24-fold before banning some kinds of Pentagon weapons transfers, but is now preparing to send more battlefield weaponry to the streets of our cities. “Clinton or Trump will surely build on Obama’s lethal legacy.”
28 July 2016 — Global Research
“Get Money out of Politics”: DNC Emails Reveal a Corrupt and Unreformable Party and System
By Gloria La Riva, July 27 2016
Amid a new scandal Debbie Wasserman Schultz was left no alternative but to step down from her role as the Chairwoman to the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, in seeking to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ challenge to Hillary Clinton for the nomination.
28 July 2016
Update: There are now 14,43o signatures. Government has to respond to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures but so far, three days in, there’s no sign of a response.
A new petition has been launched to bolster the campaign to hold Tony Blair to account by obtaining a House of Commons’ vote holding him in contempt of Parliament. It doesn’t get the murderer in court but at least it’s something. Get 100,000 signatures and they have to debate it in Parliament.
25 July 2016 — SumOfUs
Wow. Bayer, BASF and Syngenta are suing the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world.
A huge public push won this landmark ban — and we can’t sit back and let Big Pesticide overturn it while the bees vanish.
The UN sounded the alarm bells: Unless we act now, the bees are at risk of global extinction. We have to show Bayer and Co. now that we won’t tolerate them putting their profits ahead of our planet’s health.
25 July 2016 — FAIR
For months, Bernie Sanders supporters and surrogates have complained about unfair treatment from the Democratic National Committee—only to have these concerns dismissed by media observers as petulance and conspiracy-mongering:
The Sanders campaign, by propagating these DNC conspiracy theories, doesn’t encourage voters to be vigilant. They’re encouraging paranoia.
25 July 2016 — Global Research
Meanwhile At The Democratic National Convention In Philly…
By Tyler Durden, July 25 2016
As LA Times reporter Matt Pearce tweeted…
Just walked through a crowd of at least a couple hundred liberals and still haven’t seen a single Clinton sign.
25 July 2016 — 38 Degrees
Health Minister Jeremy Hunt has a secret plan to force through changes to local NHS services to cut costs. The changes – called “sustainability and transformation plans” – are being kept secret. [1] But they could mean cuts to hospital beds, local walk-in centres or family planning services near you.
First drafts of the plans have already been drawn up across England. [2] Because they’re secret, it’s hard to say exactly which services near you are at risk. But the plans for one area have been leaked and show the scale of the threat – they include axing 500 hospital beds and some emergency ambulances. [3] No wonder Jeremy Hunt doesn’t want us to see them!
The best way to stop these cuts is to get them out in the open and demand the public has a say. So please can you sign the petition now, demanding that Jeremy Hunt publishes his plans for local NHS cuts? It only takes 30 seconds to add your name:
25 July 2016 — Media Lens
Sci-Fi Surreal
Fifteen years ago this month we sent out our first media alert.
We began Media Lens, not because we believed high quality broadsheets were offset by a morally debased tabloid press; not because the ‘left-leaning’ liberal press was fine, but the Tory press was dreadful; not because the press as a whole was biased on some issues, or plagued by ‘churnalism’. We started Media Lens because the deeper we looked into almost every issue, the more we found that the truth of corporate media performance was actually breath-taking, jaw-dropping, sci-fi surreal. We found that the entire system had evolved and been designed to systematically filter out, reject, marginalise, mock and ignore just about everything and everyone that threatened the elite-run, state-corporate status quo.
25 July 2016 — The Real News Network
Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against austerity must pursue the restructuring of public debt, nationalization of key sectors, and public control of the banking system, but none of this can be done within the European Union (inc. transcript)
24 July 2016 — Global Research
The world looks on in horror as Hillary Clinton heads to Philadelphia to be nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency. Yet still the leading lights of the so-called “progressive” movement argue that it is the left’s duty to vote for this neocon warmonger. But the consequences of this strategy may well lead directly to nuclear war. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on globalresearch.ca
The nuclear option is on the table. Hillary Clinton constitutes an existential threat against all of humanity.
Her candidacy must be opposed.
Produced by James Corbett
22 July 2016
21 July 2016 — Global Research
Power and the Nuclear Bomb: Conducting Foreign Policy with the Threat of Mass Murder
By Colin Todhunter, July 21 2016
“Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular was carrying their eyeballs in their hand.” The above is an account by a Hiroshima survivor talking about the fate of her schoolmates.
21 July 2016 — FAIR
The Intercept (7/19/16) illustrated its article on a deadly airstrike in Syria with a photo of a victim receiving medical attention. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images)
A coalition airstrike reported on Tuesday that killed at least 85 civilians—one more than died in the Nice attack in France last week—wasn’t featured at all on the front pages of two of the top US national newspapers, the New York Times and LA Times, and only merited brief blurbs on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, with the actual stories buried on pages A-16 and A-15, respectively.
According to the London Telegraph (7/19/16), the airstrike killed “more than 85 civilians” after the “coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters.” Eight families were represented among the dead, with victims “as young as three.” The Intercept (7/19/16) reported the death toll could end up being well over 100.
21 July 2016 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordBlack youth in the U.S. have crossed a kind of Rubicon, and the rulers are fearful — and so are their henchmen in the Black Misleadership Class. “When a Black beauty queen calls Micah Johnson ‘a martyr,’ we know that the movement’s values have been internalized by a broad strata of the Black public.” Both wings of the duopoly are issuing dark threats of repression — a clear sign that those in power feel genuinely threatened.
The New Dark Age 